Neanderthal artists made oldest-known cave paintings

Uranium-thorium dating has been used in geology for decades, but has seldom been employed to estimate the age of cave art. Some archaeologists are sceptical of the approach. They suggest that the calcium carbonate could have dissolved and re-crystallized after it was first formed — a process that …

The project’s main event is an editing workshop – Edit-a-thon – that takes place over two days and brings people together to learn how to edit Wikipedia to create new articles and improve existing content on women and the arts. This will mark the fifth year of the Art+Feminism project, which comes out of …

On Wednesday, I visited with two very special ladies who were willing to share what art therapy has meant to their healing process. I visited Florida Hospital Cancer Institute in Orlando. The first patient, Julie, articulated how difficult life is when you first receive a cancer diagnosis. You don’t want to let …

One of the training and developing programmes I enjoy greatly delivering is one which relates to the leadership of change. This is because it provides me with the opportunity to emphasise the importance of balancing the technical dimension of any change with the human one. If change were something …

BUCHAREST, Romania — In her studio, the Romanian conceptual artist Geta Bratescu was looking at a large drawing she had made in 2012 of a bird dressed as a clown. The 91-year-old artist remarked how much younger she was when she made the piece. “What I work with these days is smaller,” said …

Art Therapy: My First Music Therapy Session with Children. February 20, 2018 … When we talk about art therapy, it really includes the “arts”; visual art, music, drama, dance and writing. Last Saturday, we … I am honored to have this national and international platform to shine the light on art therapy. I hope you continue to …

Drawn, shredded or alluded to in the form of stark geometric lines, maps are linking thread that run through Mario Abela’s latest experimental exhibition. Dislocated Geographies, which opens at Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta on February 23, is the manifestation of, and attempt by Abela to understand the world …

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However rather than the algorithms simply learning to emulate art, the researchers added a twist that encouraged the system to create art that deviates from established styles while still remaining within the bounds of recognisable art. When people looked at the results they were unable to distinguish the art …

Craig Barker does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant … Rarely does L.P. Hartley’s dictum that “the past is a foreign country” hold more firmly than in the area of sexuality in classical art.